Information and IdeasEasy–MediumQuotation supporting a claim about a character's homesickness
Information and Ideas practice question
A student argues that the narrator of the story, living abroad, misses her home town more than she admits.
Which quotation from the story would best support the student's claim?
- A. 'I told everyone I never thought about the place, and kept a jar of its river sand on the windowsill where I could see it from the bed.'Correct
- B. 'The new city was everything I had hoped for.'
- C. 'I wrote home once a year, at Christmas, out of duty.'
- D. 'My old town had one street and no cinema.'
Answer: A. 'I told everyone I never thought about the place, and kept a jar of its river sand on the windowsill where I could see it from the bed.'
Denial in words, a jar of home sand by the bed in deeds.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'The new city was everything I had hoped for.'
- Contentment, not homesickness.
- C. 'I wrote home once a year, at Christmas, out of duty.'
- Duty, not longing.
- D. 'My old town had one street and no cinema.'
- Dismissal of the town.
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